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thesis adventure pt4 - WILL I FINISH???

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thedeadhaji 39489 Posts July 23 2008 13:08 GMT #1 sooooooooooooo, with 3 working-day days + 2 weekend days to go, will haji be able to finish his thesis? We've gone through 2 out of the 5 TEM samples we need. The rest... hopefully we get through tomorrow. We wasted a good hour trying to get an ancient (and i mean ANCIENT!! this computer had 1mb of ram and 80 mb of hd space!) EDX to run and failed. Need to scan in about a hundred TEM negatives and fuck around with them tomorrow after the TEM runs are done. Not to mention analyzing/comparing/talking about them and the diffraction patterns. SEM IS STILL DOWN!! The repair guy is incompetent and we're all rolling are eyes. Need to go talk to a certain "Frank" who is in charge of another SEM in the building. Can I find him in time?? Chemical Analysis samples were made yesterday, they'll be sent to Chemistry today. They usually take two days. THAT@S FRIDAY!! Will they come back in time for me to include it in my thesis? Gotta finish revising my grammar/spelling/punctuation/formatting as well, and the micrometer/raman spectroscopy analysis, but that's the easiest part! whooooooooooo next 5 days will be hell.

micronesia United States24777 Posts July 23 2008 13:25 GMT #2 I hate those several day crunch periods. You'd think they help you buckle down and get serious, but in all honestly I've found it's every bit as hard to get to work under these high stress situations :-/

QuanticHawk United States32147 Posts July 23 2008 13:45 GMT #3 Yeah, I agree. I can only work under extreme crunch, like absolute last second. I can't motivate myself to work ahead of time, but I somehow usually turn out good stuff.

thedeadhaji 39489 Posts July 23 2008 15:46 GMT #4 oh god the SEM I might be seriously fucked

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